About the Authors

Kathleen Busman-Sahay

Affiliation Center for Immunology and Microbial Disease, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America

Lisa Drake

Affiliation Center for Immunology and Microbial Disease, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America

Anand Sitaram

Affiliation Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Physiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Michael Marks

Affiliation Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Physiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

James R. Drake

DrakeJ@mail.amc.edu

Affiliation Center for Immunology and Microbial Disease, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KB-S LD AS MM JRD. Performed the experiments: KB-S LD AS JRD. Analyzed the data: KB-S LD AS MM JRD. Wrote the paper: KB-S MM JRD.